bBoing.com respects your online privacy and is committed to promoting fair information practices. This privacy promise discloses the privacy practices for bBoing.com, a joint venture between Summit Projects, Inc and Curiosity Group.
bBoing.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. bBoing.com may collect information from our visitors at several different points on our website.
During registration a visitor is required to give their cell phone number and email address. This information is used to populate the database and will not result in the user receiving any content via cell phone or email at that point in time. If the visitor later uses the bBoing.com application to request content via their cell phone, they will not be required to submit their email address as the registration process will have previously captured this information.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the visitor's hard drive containing information about the visitor. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the visitor closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. If a visitor rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the visitor may be limited in some areas of our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our visitors to enhance the experience on our site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track visitor's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners, advertisers and clients. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
bBoing.com's website takes every precaution to protect our visitors' information. When visitors submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration form asks visitors to enter sensitive information, that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'.
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect visitor-information off-line. All of our visitors' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Anytime new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to: info@bboing.com.
f a visitor needs to update their information (email address) they can update via cell phone (send a text message with a valid keyword and revised email address from their preferred mobile device), registration page or by sending email to info@bboing.com. If a visitor no longer desires our service, they can opt-out via cell (send a text message with a the keyword 'STOP' from the preferred mobile device), opt-out page or by sending email to info@bboing.com.
If a visitor no longer desires our service, they can opt-out via cell (send a text message with a the keyword 'STOP' from the preferred mobile device), opt-out page (http://www.bboing.com/optout.cfm) or by sending email to info@bboing.com. Visitors of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our visitors can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.
If we decide to change our privacy promise, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our visitors are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify visitors by way of an email. Visitors will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy promise under which the information was collected.
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